[Design-team] VT/FUDcon Blacksburg: Open Source Design Tools Workshop

[Elad]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 10:23 -0400, Ben Williams wrote:
> > no computer lab will be available but i can always make live DVDs for
> > the participants to use with their computers so downloading will not be
> > needed
>
> Okay that would be fantastic. We might just need a 15-20 minute period
> before class starts just to make sure everything runs smoothly. Or maybe
> push the workshop time to be 3.5 hours to allow for some software issue
> resolution time up-front.
>
> > I think I can say Emily will be an easy approval especially if she is
> > commited to doing a workshop
>
> Okay cool.
> >
> > myself i am up in the air about KDEnlive vs Scribus which do you think
> > would be the best to the first time users (and what would help them
> > become contributors faster?)
>
> I don't know about kdenlive because I haven't had much luck using it in
> the past; Scribus tends to be crashy (and at least for me, totally
> broken in F15) so I'm not sure it would be a good candidate for a
> first-timer experience. (What do you think about kdenlive for
> first-timers specifically, Klaatu?)
>
> I think kdenlive would be a good candidate for helping folks become
> contributors; one thing I think we desperately need are Fedora-specific
> video reviews and tutorials. Having a way of editing and cutting video /
> screencasts to post them online would be a huge help there. In fact, as
> part of the course we could maybe run the video editing section at the
> end, and have the students produce a screencast of what they learned in
> Inkscape or Gimp and post it online at the end of class.
>
Sounds awesome, but I'd recommend pitivi instead of kdenlive, it's easier to
use...
but It won't start on my f16 machine right now. If the bug will be fixed, I
can make a class about it (if you want).
 "Using pitivi, recordmydesktop and gst-launch for screencasting".

>
> ~m
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